If he resigns I should urge him to take up his residence here and to act as Mark's tutor; and he might also relieve you of some of Millicent's lessons.

You have plenty to do in looking after the management of things in general.

However, that is for the future." At eleven o'clock the Squire drove down to Reigate, taking Mark with him, as it would save all trouble about putting up the horse and pony.
On arriving he handed Mark over to the head constable, and asked him to pass him into a seat in the courthouse, before the public were let in.
Reigate was in a state of unusual excitement.

That the coach should have been stopped and robbed was too common an event to excite much interest, but that two highwaymen should have been captured, and, as was rumored, a young gentleman brought in on a charge of being in connection with them, caused a thrill of excitement.

Quite a small crowd was assembled before the courthouse, and the name of Squire Thorndyke passed from mouth to mouth.
"There is some talk of his being mixed up with it in some way or other," one said.